Youth
Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit, 1918-19762019
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Unable to stay on to high school, Tove starts her first job (which lasts only one day) and soon embarks on a varied and chequered career: as au pair, cleaner, stock-room assistant and office worker. But Tove is hungry, for poetry, for love, for real life to begin. As she navigates exploitative bosses, uninspiring boyfriends and a Nazi landlady, she struggles to keep her poetic vocation in sight - until she finally realizes the 'miracle' that she has always dreamed of.The second volume in Ditlvesen's autobiographical trilogy, Youth is a sensitive, often funny and almost painfully truthful portrayal of adolescence.
Main title:
Youth / Tove Ditlevsen.
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London : Penguin Classics, 2019.
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224 pages ; 22 cm.
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Translated from the Danish.
ISBN:
9780241405550 (pbk. :)
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EnglishDanish
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BRN:
2266080
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